Essay On Non Dyslexic Children

onathan Grainger, Sébastein Bouttevin, Cathy Truc, Miereille Bastein, and Johannes Ziegler wrote the article Word superiority, pseudoword superiority, and learning to read: A comparison of dyslexic and normal reader (2003). In their hypothesis they stated how they wanted to see if dyslexic children could identify specific letters in words, nonwords, and pseudowords compared to their age mates and reading age mates. In all of the experiments that were conducted by Jonathan Grainger and colleagues (2003), took a five-letter word and replaced either the second or fourth letter in the word with a different one. Half of the participants in their experiment would get the word with the second letter changed and the other half would get the fourth …show more content…
The non-dyslexic children of course did slightly better than the dyslexic ones, which is due to their disability (pg 435). In this particular experiment Grainger and colleagues (2003) found that there was a pseudoword superiority effect, which means that the participants were able to identify a letter easier with a fake word opposed to a nonword. There was also no word superiority effect found in this experiment, which is the exact opposite of the pseudoword superiority effect (pg 435). In experiment two Grainger and colleagues (2003) gave the same test to non-dyslexic children but were the same age as the dyslexic ones. They found that there was no difference between the children of same age that had dyslexia or didn’t have dyslexia when it came to identifying the letter. When identifying the word and reading it aloud the non-dyslexic same age group children did better on both tasks. The experimenters still found that there is a pseudoword superiority effect and no word superiority effect (pg 437). Lastly in experiment three Grainger and colleagues (2003) tested only